Mon 20 February 2023: After being devastated earlier this month by temblors that killed tens of thousands of people, a shallow magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region. The depth of Monday’s aftershock in Turkey’s Hatay province was 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre. The quake struck the town […]
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Mon 20 February 2023: More people are depending on food banks than ever before in Britain, new figures show, as “ever-increasing” numbers of households – including pensioners, NHS staff and teachers – seek help amid the cost of living crisis. New research by the Independent Food Aid Network (Ifan), shared with the Observer, found that almost […]
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Mon 20 February 2023: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Pakistan to protect the poor and impose more taxes on the wealthy as the South Asian nation seeks to unlock funds from the global lender to keep its economy afloat. Speaking over the weekend with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle on the sidelines of the […]
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Mon 20 February 2023: United States President Joe Biden has arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Biden’s visit on Monday was the first to Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into the neighbouring country on February 24, 2022. Biden said he was […]
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Mon 20 February 2023: The African Union has said that Israel’s observer status at the bloc was suspended which is why it was not invited to attend the weekend summit. The news comes after Israeli ambassador Sharon Bar-li was removed from the African Union’s annual summit in Ethiopia on Saturday as she attempted to attend using a […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: President of Azerbaijan Republic says entities related to the Iranian government were involved in the armed attack on the country’s embassy in Tehran last month. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ilham Aliyev said “normalization of relations with Iran depends on a transparent investigation […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: Gun crime across England and Wales almost doubled in the space of one year according to shocking new offence statistics which highlighted an astonishing 2533% increase in London alone. Analysis of Home Office open crime data from the first two quarters of 2021-2022 and 2022-23 show that there were 850 gun offences logged across […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: A senior Israeli ambassador was expelled from the annual meeting of the African Union in Ethiopia as tensions over Israel’s membership in the organization grew. Security guards were seen escorting Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li from the summit’s opening ceremony in Addis Abeba in a footage shared on social media. Ebba Kalondo, the […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: About two weeks after this month’s deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Administration (AFAD) says that search and rescue activities have come to an end in the majority of regions. “The death toll due to the earthquakes rose to 40,642, and the work of searching […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: Saudi Arabia is constructing a massive cube in the heart of a new city center in Riyadh, the latest in a long line of unusually shaped structures and cities planned by the kingdom. The project was started on Thursday when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman declared that he would serve as […]
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